All the greatest photos in the world have been taken with VERY noisy cameras. Your body movements and nervousness about the camera noise are way more likely to scare off the animal. They can pick more things than just noise.
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Depends on what you call "wildlife" and how high you set your standardsThis is the reason there's barely any pictures of wildlife in all of history.
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I like the touch bar but then again, I do drink the Canon water.Same! Particularly the AF trackpad to replace the M-Fn touch bar. It's hard to imagine it could be worse than the touch bar.
Plus intervalometer, pretty pleaseImproved battery life is a thing if you use a WTF transmitter. I find myself turning wifi on and off a lot when the battery starts to run down. Built in wifi for a hotspot in your pocket is also good - those sticky out transmitters catch on straps and hit things in a bag or, worse, come off and get lost in the gutter.
I imagine a lot of the technologies such as eye-AF and better sensor tech are transferable between DSLR & mirrorless so why not just import the improvements between the two formats and offer a better 1 series DSLR if they can? The mk2 is already a brilliant camera. Even if not a strong enough proposition to motivate you to upgrade, it'd make the idea of a 1 series stronger to new buyers replacing or buying anew and Canon have most of the 1DX tooling in place anyway.
There are some weird omissions on the 1DX2 which I hope they address:
Touch screen operation a la 5D4 - make it switchable in the menu.
Offer the same cropping options of 5D4 (more flexible ratios available) and offer greater placement and sizing fidelity.
In-camera image rotation in 0.1 degree increments - use the scroll wheel to impliment, would be very usable.
yesterday i shooted tits 1-3meter distance with RP and i think they flinched.
Or they just noticed that scary pipe is now pointing them ,who knows
I think good photographers shoot first more far with camera so birds get use
I think the animals are more afraid of a big human figure walking towards them with the scary pipe.
Personally, and my friend concurs, a sitting human is much more acceptable to many birds than standing. It's also more acceptable to a lazy photographer.I think the animals are more afraid of a big human figure walking towards them with the scary pipe.
Well Sanj I don't question your experience but I have shots of calm birds that then appear in the frame with their wings suddenly up and it's happened enough times that it's not a coincidental movement. IOW, at least some small birds have very fast reaction times and do react to the flash - although giving it more thought, I now recall having issues where the pre-flash seemed to be an issue.I will go a step further: I have never ever scared an animal with a flash either. True story!
I have scared a few Monterey Bay Aquarium employees once with my careless flash use, and they were definitely not plants.I will go a step further: I have never ever scared an animal with a flash either. True story!
Which begs the question why are folks concerned with privacy by photographers yet cell phone use with connectivity to the web and it's hellhole of nefarious offerings is not even blinked at? The pervs and abusers of images have a free ride with cell phones these days. Bassakwards.I can think of one situation where shutter noise could cause an issue. I’ve been shooting a lot of sunrise over the ocean shots. It’s surprising how many people walk the beach at dawn. I can imagine a situation where a woman walks past me, I take a photo of the sunrise and she thinks I took a picture of her and starts a confrontation. It hasn’t happened yet but it could.
I can tell that women are wary when they see me with a camera and I don’t take any photos of them when they’re close. I do take some when people are far enough away that they give a sense of scale to the scene but they’re small enough in the frame that they aren’t recognizable.
I’d be a terrible street photographer.
The deer who visit my yard and the yard next door in the late afternoon tolerate my presence on the deck pretty well until I point a camera at them. Then they slip into the edge of the woods.
Ha ha which reminds me the fact that since I am not knowledgeable about birds i shoot first and ask questions later (about the kind of bird I shot!)They don't understand that in English, "shooting" has more than one definition.